Booger Brown doing his best Jack Benny
If you’re on the West
Coast, Booger and Cody and Bubba and their brides and kids will be back for
season four of THE COWBOY WAY today at 5 pm. If you’re on the East Coast it’ll
be 8 pm. It airs again on Thursday night -- check your local listings for times. Just a couple of days ago I had
the chance to talk to Booger Brown about the show, the network, his partners
and family, and what’s in store for fans.
For those of you who
haven’t watched the show, Booger, Cody and Bubba are partners in the Faith Cattle Company. They’ve been
friends and co-workers for many years. Cody Harris is married to Misty, and
they have a son, Carter. Bubba Thompson is married to Kaley, and they have a daughter,
Andie. Booger married Jaclyn, a widowed pharmacist, with a young son, Matthew,
in season two. Booger began by talking about the article I wrote about the show
for True West Magazine. If you haven’t read the piece, you can CLICKHERE.
Booger Brown: Mr. Henry,!
Henry Parke: Booger! How are you doing, sir?
Booger Brown: Now I'm
doing good. How are you? I just looked
at that magazine just this morning, man. You did a heck of a job. Everybody was
real excited, and our photographer, he was pretty excited that he got his
pictures in a magazine.
Henry Parke: Well that's great. It was such fun to meet
all of you and it's great to talk to you again. I can't believe when we met you
had just wrapped up season three and now you've got another season ready to go.
It seems so quick.
Booger Brown: Yeah.
Henry Parke: My wife is a huge fan of the show and she
made me promise that I'd tell you that she loved your wedding. Jaclyn looked
gorgeous. My wife especially loved your having the pillow made out of your granddad’s
shirt there.
Booger Brown: Thank you.
Henry Parke: How are you enjoying being a daddy to
Matthew?
Matthew, Jaclyn and Booger
Booger Brown: Oh man, it's great. There ain't no if, ands or
buts about it. I couldn't draw a picture or couldn't write down a kid who would
be any more perfect fit in my life then my little old son Matthew. I mean, he
is it. When I first met Jaclyn, Matthew loved cars. His daddy passed away when
he was 13 months old, and he sold cars. And Matthew, he's turned on this cowboy thing,
and especially when I'm keeping him, he comes home and he puts on his cowboy
shirts and cowboy hat and cowboy boots and cowboy buckle belt -- he calls it not
belt buckle but his buckle belt. And he wants to ride his pony and he goes with
me. You can't ask for more.
One evening about a week
ago, I was real tired, and he said, “Dad,
I want to ride my pony. Will you catch Trigger so I can ride him?” And I was
thinking, I waited my whole life for a little old kid to ask me that, to want
to go do what I do. And you can't turn it down. So I called his horse and kind
of caught my second wind. And I thought, you know, I need to pen them heifers,
bring 'em in. I went and caught my horse and I was leading Matthew everywhere I
went, and he followed me while we penned the heifers; he likes being big boy
and he likes being a country boy. At that point he said, “Dad, can I take my
shirt off?” And I said, “You bet you
can: take it off!” He throws his shirt off and he thinks that's cool, you know.
And his boots, he's got slip- on boots and they're a little big for him, and
they slide off his feet while he's riding the horse. I had to fix them a time
or two, and I was trying to pen them cattle. And he said, “My boots! My boots!”
I said, “Give 'em here.” And I threw them over by a tree. We went out of the
house this morning and he couldn't find his boots, and Jaclyn said, "I
don't know where they're at." And I thought about it, and they're still
there in the pasture by that tree! (laughs)
Henry Parke: I have to tell you I just got to see the
first episode of season four, where you get Matthew his own horse and it's just
the dream of my childhood.
Booger Brown: Did you see
him when he took his hat off? He got his horse, and he's trotting around the
yard. He takes his hat off and holds it up in the air. Like 'Howdy y'all!'
Henry Parke: A lot of season 3 was about you and your
partners getting into the restaurant business. Were you disappointed that it
didn’t work out?
Booger Brown: No, I wasn’t.
It was something we thought we could go and do, it’d be profitable for us guys.
And we got us a belly full of it, and we decided we were already married, and
we was in the cattle business. We didn't need to be in two things. Couldn't be
married to anything else, you know?
The trio plus one: Cody, unidentified,
Booger and Bubbah
Henry Parke: Have you spent all of your life in Alabama?
Booger Brown: No, I
actually grew up in South Florida. We had ranched in South Florida and my family had a lot of historythere ; you
should check it out sometime. William Brown come over from England when they
were laying the transatlantic cable. He hid out in Cuba and then got a ride on
over here to America. He become an
Indian Agent, and he started the Brown’s Boat Landing where the Seminole Big
Cypress Reservation is now. There’s a video on Youtube called MYSTERY OF
WILLIAM H. BROWN AND BROWN’S TRADING POST. I honestly haven't watched the whole
Youtube video because it starts showing my granddaddy talking and I know I
can't really handle seeing him, you know, but it's good stuff. The day they
buried him, when they got done with a funeral, the Indians came and treated him
just like he was an Indian and held an Indian ceremony at his grave. That's
pretty cool, you know.
I was in my teens when we
came to Alabama and bought a piece of property. (In Florida) it just got tough
with the environmentalists and we realized if we were ever going to actually own
anything ourselves, we had to get out of there.
My Dad is still a rancher
here today. My mom and dad have been together for 35 years. Got married young
and my Dad tells a story of when him and my mom got together. There was lots of
wild cattle, and they had 'em a jeep, and a tranquilizer gun, and they would go
around and tranquilize wild cattle in this old jeep, and had me in a car seat
riding that old jeep at two years old. They would go around and tranquilize
them, then come back with a trailer and load them up, and that's why they made
extra money.
Henry Parke: Without giving too much away, what can
viewers look forward to in season four of THE COWBOY WAY?
Booger Brown: We kind of expand, you know? We sign on with
another business partner and we grow. I
mean, it just gets better. And I'm hopeful there'll be more action in there. I
know they filmed a lot of action and it just depends on what makes the cut and
what everybody wants to see on TV. And INSP is so supportive of us. They are so
wanting to see the real cowboy side of things, and they treat us like real
people. It's really good to work for somebody like INSP and know you're
appreciated for what you do and what you stand for. They shoot us straight and
we shoot them straight as well.
Henry Parke: And how are
you doing personally?
Booger Brown: I've sold
more cattle and traded more cattle this year than I have in the past. The
economy is looking good and things are looking up for us. It's just a good
feeling, and going back to the show, it seems like we're having such a positive
influence on so many people.
Henry Parke: Any other future plans, outside of
the series, that we should know about?
Booger Brown: Me and Jaclyn's really eager to find us a piece of property if we don't get my granddaddy's property back. And who
knows, in the future might have a child. We're really ready to grow
with what we got going on, expand our
business in trading cattle and raising cattle.
AND THAT'S A WRAP!
Happy trails,
Henry
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